The Universe's Plastic Planet Called EarthFor decades throughout the world, plastic and plastic materials designed to last forever have entered our lives and the worldwide environments in which we live. Plastic is everywhere from plastic bags and wrappings to plastic toys, furniture, household and manufactured items that we buy, use and throw into mountains of ...
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NASA's Kepler Mission: Exotic Solar Systems on the Path to Earth-Like PlanetsHumans have long wondered what other planetary systems are like, and if potentially Earth-like planets exist around other stars. NASA's Kepler Mission is a space telescope that was designed to answer these questions. From four years of Kepler data we can now confidently say that the average planetary system looks ...
Where: Santa CruzCost: Free
Science and Reason with Skeptics in the Pub, West BayIf ye value critical thinking, and if ye scorn the flim-flam man, join us, your friends. Skeptics in the Pub is a group of like-minded people informally discussing the latest in science or pseudoscience over good eats & ale.Skeptics in the Pub is a monthly meeting for discussion of topics ...
The use of birds of prey by humans as a form of hunting appears to have originated in China around 680BC. The first evidence of Falconry in Europe comes from the sixth century.Falconry has a language of its own and is not with out controversy. Join the leading experts in ...